Harness.



No. 692,7I6. Patented Fb. 4, |902,

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.\HABNESS.

(A ppliceion med mgy 4, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT fROEEIoE.

FREDERICK JAMES SCI-IENK, OE MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS.

HARNESS.V s

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Patent No. 692,716, datedFebruary 4, 1902.

Application filed May 4, 1901." Serial No. 58 ,754. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK JAMES SOHENK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Monticello, in the county of Piatt and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to harness construction, and while my inventionwill be found desirable and applicable for use in operatively connectingvarious portions of the harness together yet I will for convenience inillustrating my invention as applied to use show the same as employed toform a bridle. The object of my invention is to provide securing deviceswhich are especially designed for forming bridles or other parts of theharness out of woven fabric, as cords or small ropes, and while I shallconine my specification as above set forth it will be obvious that otheruses than those specified may be made of my securing devices.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l illustrates my invention asapplied to use` upon a bridle, showing the same in its operativecondition. Fig. 2 illustrates the means which is employed in uniting twoends of straps together and extending them in dierent directions.

In order to conveniently designate the several parts of my invention andthe coperat? ing accessories, numerals will be employed, of which 1illustrates the bit of a bridle of the usual or any preferredconstruction, to whichIconnect theheadstallproper,2,formed, preferably,of a section of a rope by means of the tubular socket 3. The checkreins7 may also be connected directly to the ring of the bit 1 by a similarsocket 3, the checkreins preferably being disposed upward between theears of the animal and connected togetherl by thedevice designated bythe numeral 8. In order to prevent the rope from casually slipping whenthus disposed in the tubular section 12, an anchoring-point 14 may beformed upon the interior wall of the device, preferably in the centralpart of the cut-away section or opening 13, as more clearly illustratedin Fig. 2. The anchoring-point will therefore take into a contiguouspart of the rope orits equivalent, and thus insure against casualslipping of the device until the rope is grasped and drawn away fromsaid point, when said device may be readjusted as desired.`

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated a tubular socket 19 as being connected tothe body portion or main section 20, the parts 20 corresponding to theparts 12 in Fig. 2 and the part l5 being replaced by said section 19.'By this arrangementI am enabled to connect a branch of the rope, asindicated by the numeral 21, to the main section, the end of said branchbe' ing entered in the tubular socket 19 and secured by the rivet 22.

The entire device illustrated in Fig. 2 is indicated in Fig. 1 by thenumeral 26.

If desired, the upper portion of the headstall may consist of thesection of strap, as indicated by the numeral 29, and the rope 30,passing over said strap, may be anchored or stayed in position bythedevice indicated by the numeral 31.

' While I have described the preferred cony struction and combination ofparts deemed necessary in Vmaterializing. my invention, I desire tocomprehend in this application all Vsuch substantial equivalents andsubstitutes as may be considered to fairly fall within the scope of myinvention.

`Believing that the construction and manner of using my improvedanchoring devices have been made fully apparent from the foregoingspecification considered in connection' with'the accompanying drawings,further description is deemed unnecessary.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In harness construction, the herein-described attaching devicecomprising a tubular portion with cut-away portion intermediate its endsand a tubular socket rigid with the tubular portion, substantially asdescribed.

2. In harness construction, the herein-described attaching devicecomprising a tubular portion with cut-away portion intermediate its endsand a tubular socket rigid with the tubular portion and paralleltherewith and closed at one end substantially as described.

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3. In harness construction, the herein-deportion of a rope disposedopposite said eutscribed attaching device comprising a tubuaway portion.1o lar portion with cut-away portion interrne- In testimony whereof Iaihx my signature diate its ends and a tubular socket rigid with inpresence of two Witnesses.

5 the tubular portion and parallel therewith FREDERICK JAMES SCIIENK.

and closed at one end, and an anchoring de- Witnesses: vice extendinglaterally from the uncut Ver- ARTHUR BENDER,

tical wail of the body portion to engage the SAM VHALEN.

